How much do you spend on food and household goods per week per person?

blue max

I spend more than that on toilet rolls

Think I spend £50pp a week. Two of us and two kids, but one is a fifteen year old girl, who eats like an adult and picks and chooses what she eats or leaves.

And that is being careful and picking discounted stuff in the supermarkets.

Apart from the mortgage it is a very close second largest expense.

dvdphile

Asda and Tesco mainly but sometimes Farmfoods as a top-up shop for milk, bread etc..

m1stergeorge

There was a time where me and the wife would be about £50 a week for the pair of us.  More recently, We've been buying separate food because we are on different diets etc.  Thing is, I reckon that because we had the money set aside, we made do with it.  Now that I do my own food etc and vice versa, I think it's more like £80 per week for the pair of us.

Rorifett

Spent about £500-600 on average between two adults and a baby for past four months, cut that back this month to £80ish per week, so massive saving for us by just not buying ****e constantly

=adrian=

We spend around £40-50 per person per week. There are 2 adults and a toddler at home. I just done weekly shopping today and spent £60 in Aldi and £40 in Tesco, plus I usually go for a top up of bread/milk/and other stuff around wednesdays each week (that's usually around £30).

If I compare that to 5-6 years ago, I think I spend around double the money for the same amount of food per person.

Steven

Spend £20 per week myself on food and one imagines monumental food waste would be attributable to most households with higher expenditure. Let's face it, this country is pretty bad for it when you have people totting up £100 weekly shops like they are going to get recognition for it on the school run. Instead of going for multi-buys and ending up throwing good food out, many households could become more efficient. Of course the supermarket giants will not like that.

=adrian=

Unless you want your family to eat better food than Findus lasagne. Sadly better quality food is generally unavailable as a multi-buy, BOGAF, or half price offers anyway, so you end up paying more.

We eat a lot of fruit and veg, and we buy them in Aldi or Farmfoods, because the usual supermarket giant's (Tesco/Asda/Morrisons/Sainsbury's) fruit and vegs are tasteless, not fresh and usually cost more.

I'm not saying we don't waste food, becuase we do, but I don't think we waste as much of it, as people buying cheaper stuff. Also I don't think I'd be happy to skimp on my son's dinner and serve him some cheap stuff just to save few pennies. It's money vs my son's health at the end of the day and I know which is more important to me.

IronGiant

Try doing the maths, people saying they spend a £100 a week are talking about per family, not per head

blue max

Butter is £3 a tub which when used for sandwiches doesn't go as far as you think. Plus a loaf of bread can be £1.45 and again, doesn't last too long when you have sandwiches in the house.

Then coffee is pretty dear if you have coffee drinkers.

Milk not bad, but we get through a couple of 4 pinters in a few days.

Veg around £1.50 a pop, may do two meals, but not necessarily.

Cheese is pretty dear too.

All can be bought on deals, but it soon racks up.

And that's before you have used any gas/leccy to cook anything.

I'm sure some people kid themselves that they are spending less, but it is all significant.

NorvernRob

We do a monthly shop of around £150, then average £50 per week for the rest of the month, that's two adults and a 21 month old. So around £25 per week, per person.

I'm amazed people pay silly amounts for cheap foods, for instance the microwave flavoured rice that is over £1 per packet, you can (and we do) buy a huge bag of rice and flavour it yourself for a tenth of the price.

I get my meat from a quality butcher that is cheaper than the supermarkets, but my wife is vegetarian so that does reduce the meat costs.

I was talking about this with a good friend of mine the other day, he spends over £700 per month for 2 adults and 2 children under 2 which I think is ridiculous. If we spent £400 per month we'd be throwing massive amounts of food away.